Fascism is on the ballot

[Bob Butler 54]

(10-12-2020, 03:40 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: We've had a lot of individual freedoms trampled on this year and there are freedoms at stake as well.

The freedom to put other’s lives at risk?

The primary grumbling about ‘loss of freedom’ seems to be about people unwilling to take precautions to prevent the spread of the bug.  In the theory, we are coming from the selfish time of the unravelling and entering a crisis time of sacrifice for others.  I personally think it is not much of a sacrifice, that helping to persevere lives is absurdly worth the effort.  Still, it has become very red symbolically not to take precautions, to put people at risk.

Do you think this will stand in the long term?  Do you think this will read well in the history books?

I see it as a big part of why the old values are going to crash and burn.  The problems confronted by society are solved in the crisis.  The new values are accepted in the long term.  The old ones become anathema.  It is an attempt to stop the cycle, to freeze ourself in the unraveling mood and culture.

This doesn’t seem to be a good issue to hang yourself for.